How to enable PHP short tags?

Question

I have a web application on a Linux server which starts with

I needed to copy this application to a windows environment and everything is working

Answer 1

sed -i "s/short_open_tag = .*/short_open_tag = On/" /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

That works on php7.2 on ubuntu 16, same answer as above by Bradley Flood, although the directory in which the config file is stored has changed.

Also you can change the version in the php string to match your currently installed version.